The Colas c23.160
The Cōḷas c23.160
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c23.160
90. *NI.* N. 85. Venkayya says rightly that the inscription is mutilated and the date is lost. *IA.* xxxviii, p. 10, n. 58. But the '*padāvadu*' with which the second line begins, and the dates in the other inscriptions cited above, make it probable that the regnal year is the ninth of Kulōttunga though it might also be the nineteenth or twenty-ninth. However that may be, it is not easy to accept Venkayya's statement: 'As the former (Nallasiddha) appears to have been a contemporary of Kulōttunga III from his 27th to 35th year, it is clear that he must have come after Tammusiddhi,' when there is no mention of Tammusiddhi earlier than Ś. 1127 i.e. roughly the 27th year of Kulōttunga III, while Nallasiddha figures in many earlier inscriptions.